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Teaching English as Second Language

My temper flared last Thursday because one of my Korean students was arrogant and felt he was more intelligent than anybody else in the campus. He is indeed very good in Science or Chemistry, but not yet in English. Most of the teachers who are handling his other subjects have complains about him, but I tried to find out his weaknesses so that I would know how to have smooth conversation with him everyday. But that Thursday was very terrible because he can't accept the fact that his answer has grammatical errors with the essay type test that I gave him. He already had misunderstanding with the other teacher prior to our class. My co-teachers didn't have the courage to scold him so I took the authority to scold him because I was kinda insulted and I proved to him that he really needs to improve his English writing and speaking skills. He didn't show up to our class the following day, instead he went to the office and complained. Perhaps he requested for a new teacher, bu